Usage:
Arcola Limestone Member of Mooreville Chalk (AL*,MS*)
Arcola Limestone Member of Mooreville Formation (AL*,MS*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian; Gulfian Provincial Epoch, Tayloran Provincial Age)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: in bluff at old Arcola Landing on Black Warrior River, in NE/4 sec. 4, T. 18 N., R. 3 E., Hale Co., about 5 mi northeast of Demopolis, AL (Stephenson and Monroe, 1938).
AAPG geologic province:
Mid-Gulf Coast basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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